Posted on 09/21/2015 9:00:51 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
A debate over Islam -- first sparked by Donald Trump not correcting a town hall questioner who called President Obama a non-American Muslim, and now Ben Carson saying a Muslim should not be president -- has unexpectedly shifted the conversation in the Republican presidential race.
So far, neither candidate at the center of the furor is backing down. Trump has said he had no obligation to correct the man who wrongly called Obama a Muslim. And Carson is doubling down on his remarks from Sunday.
Carson, a Christian and retired neurosurgeon, initially commented on whether a Muslim should be president on NBC's "Meet the Press."
"I would not advocate that we put a Muslim in charge of this nation," Carson said. "I absolutely would not agree with that."
He later told The Hill that the next president should be "sworn in on a stack Bibles, not a Koran." He explained, "I do not believe Sharia is consistent with the Constitution of this country."
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It should be Foxnews.com
I don’t see how running against Islam could conceivably hurt any candidate.
I agree. Muslims are 1% of the population. In domestic politics they are about as relevant as wiccans. Just tell the truth about them and forget their vote.
The media wants to keep the talk on Muslims to keep drumming up war for distribution. I want the talk to be about jobs, education and defense.
25) He changed the primary mission of NASA from space exploration to Muslim outreach . . . seriously.
24) He refuses to treat foreign terrorists as enemies at war with this country, and insists instead on treating them as mere common criminals with the constitutional rights of American citizens.
23) He refused to acknowledge that the bloodthirsty Islamic lunatics he brought to power in Iraq (ISIS) were Muslims.
22) He appeased Iran’s Islamo-fascist regime as it went nuclear.
21) When a Muslim beheaded a woman in Oklahoma for not converting to Islam, he refused to allow any acknowledgement of the Islamic connection to the attack.
20) He snatched defeat from the jaws of victory in Iraq (enabling the rise of ISIS) and then lied about it.
19) He had his Department of Justice threaten to prosecute people for criticizing Islam. (FORGET THE 1st AMENDMENT)
18) He alienates and betrays Israel (our number-one ally in the Middle East) non-stop.
17) He handed Afghanistan back to the Islamic fundamentalists who facilitated 9/11.
16) He rushes in after every terrorist attack to warn us against “Islamophobia” and stopped the authorities from investigating Islamic extremism.
15) He criminalized Christianity in the military while spying onevery one but Islamic terrorists.
14) When an Islamic terrorist slaughtered 13 people and injured 30 others at Ft. Hood in 2009 while shouting, “Allahu Akbar” the entire time (a 100% preventable attack made possible by him refusing to investigate a Muslim soldier), he responded by calling it “workplace violence” and refusing to acknowledge any connection whatsoever to Islam.
13) He is on the record enthusiastically embracing Islam, and peddling wildly erroneous ”religion of peace” propaganda that Muslims around the world openly reject as false.
12) When a U.S. ambassador was dragged through the streets and tortured to death by barbaric Muslim savages in Benghazi, along with three other Americans killed that night, he repeatedly refused to lift a finger to stop the attack in the first place, and responded by apologizing to the terrorists, falsely blaming the attack on an American film, and intimidating witnesses into silence.
11) He refuses to acknowledge America’s Judeo-Christian roots, while even absurdly attempting to portray us as a Muslim country.
10) He was born and raised a Muslim.
9) He appointed members of a radical Islamic terrorist organization to sensitive advisory roles and gave Muslim extremist groups sweeping influence over U.S. policies.
8) He gutted the U.S. military to the bone while bending over backward to arm Islamic terrorists.
7) When the heads of more than 40 countries responded to the mass murder of journalists in Paris by organizing the greatest march against Islamic terrorism in history, he was the only leader in the entire Western world who refused to show up, or even have a high-level official make an appearance...even though Eric Holder was already in the city.
6) He funded and empowered Sharia-pushing Islamist radicals while trashing their Christian victims and targeting conservatives.
5) He needlessly released major Islamic terrorist leaders from Guantanamo Bay back onto the battlefield who then started groups like ISIS and had to be re-captured as they raped, beheaded, and massacred Christians across the Middle East.
4) He armed, funded, supported Islamic terrorists ...and evenrecruited them, through the State Department.
3) He routinely met with the Hamas front group CAIR while blocking FBI investigations into its open funding of terrorist groups, despite it being banned in other countries as a violent Islamic terrorist organization.
2) After he intentionally misled the public on Benghazi by falsely attributing the known terrorist attack to Americans having the right to disagree with Islam in public, Hillary revealed that he was looking to “arrest and prosecute” the film-maker they falsely blamed. And that film-maker was in fact sent to prison on trumped up charges.
1) He holds regular meetings with Islamic terrorists from the Muslim Brotherhood, removes its members from our “no-fly” lists, blocks FBI investigations into its jihadist fundraising, and fills the administration with its Islamic supremacists as they promote Sharia law.
You don’t just happen to come down on the side of Islam 100% of the time, on every single issue, without there being a reason for it. Obama is a tireless advocate for Islamic front groups, causes, and interests...and has been a brazen activist on their behalf from the beginning.
THOSE WHO WILL NOT CONNECT THE DOTS SHOWING THAT OBAMA IS A MUSLIM, ARE
IN DENIAL, BLIND TO EVIDENCE, ARE EMOTIONALLY INCAPABLE OF ACCEPTING THE
OBVIOUS, AND ARE UNABLE TO DRAW CONCLUSIONS BASED ON OBSERVATION.
Excellent!
To all the people who are full of false outrage over this, I say go to somalia and stay there.
Well as Trump said to Stephie on Sunday Some people think we already have one. (a muslim president) LOL!
Is a black man supposed to prove his tolerance by endorsing a religion that practices slavery?
A MUSLIM FOR PRESIDENT? SHOULD BEN CARSON ENDORSE SHARIA SLAVERY IN ISLAMIC LAW?
Senator Obama slips up and says “my Muslim faith” in an interview with George Stephanopoulus:
http://web.israelinsider.com/Articles/Politics/13078.htm
In his own words: Barack Obama on Christianity and Islam
By Thomas Lifson
A website called Now The End Begins has compiled 40 comments by Barack Obama on Christianity and Islam. Collectively, they create quite an interesting picture. I admit that there may be instances of the president speaking as favorably of Christianity as he does of Islam, but I am not aware of them. I do remember in the 2008 campaign that he said he had accepted Jesus Christ as his savior, and that was in response to public awareness of his attendance at Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s church, Trinity United. What the president left unsaid is the nature of Jesus as understood in Black Liberation Theology. But that is a discussion for another time.
The list has been reprinted here and here. (hat tip: iOwnTheWorld.com). See what you think:
1. “The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam”
2. “The sweetest sound I know is the Muslim call to prayer”
3. “We will convey our deep appreciation for the Islamic faith, which has done so much over the centuries to shape the world — including in my own country.”
4. “As a student of history, I also know civilization’s debt to Islam.”
5. “Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance.”
6. “Islam has always been part of America”
7. “we will encourage more Americans to study in Muslim communities”
8. “These rituals remind us of the principles that we hold in common, and Islam’s role in advancing justice, progress, tolerance, and the dignity of all human beings.”
9. “America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.”
10. “I made it clear that America is not – and will never be – at war with Islam.”
11. “Islam is not part of the problem in combating violent extremism – it is an important part of promoting peace.”
12. “So I have known Islam on three continents before coming to the region where it was first revealed”
13. “In ancient times and in our times, Muslim communities have been at the forefront of innovation and education.”
14. “Throughout history, Islam has demonstrated through words and deeds the possibilities of religious tolerance and racial equality.”
15. “Ramadan is a celebration of a faith known for great diversity and racial equality”
16. “The Holy Koran tells us, ‘O mankind! We have created you male and a female; and we have made you into nations and tribes so that you may know one another.’”
17. “I look forward to hosting an Iftar dinner celebrating Ramadan here at the White House later this week, and wish you a blessed month.”
18. “We’ve seen those results in generations of Muslim immigrants – farmers and factory workers, helping to lay the railroads and build our cities, the Muslim innovators who helped build some of our highest skyscrapers and who helped unlock the secrets of our universe.”
19. “That experience guides my conviction that partnership between America and Islam must be based on what Islam is, not what it isn’t. And I consider it part of my responsibility as president of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear.”
20. “I also know that Islam has always been a part of America’s story.”
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